Jeff Kinne Course Policies

This page contains information about the course policies in courses with Jeff Kinne as instructor.

Policies

The following policies are in effect.

• All CS Policies are in effect.

Academic Misconduct

• Sharing solutions to assignments, quizzes, exams: 0 tolerance. If you are caught giving your solutions to another student or receiving solutions from anyone (whether a student or not), you will receive an F for the course and have a report of academic misconduct filed against you.
• Sharing solutions to assignments, quizzes, exams if you are not a current student in the course but are found to be sharing your solutions with students in one of my courses, I will (a) never write a letter of recommendation for you, and (b) file a report of academic misconduct against you.
• Copying from the internet or elsewhere: 0 tolerance. If you copy from the internet or anywhere other than our course content, you will receive an F in the course and have a report of academic misconduct filed against you. The following are allowed: copying from files given to you by myself, copying from recommended/required texts for the course, using your own code from previous coursework or projects provided you mention this in a comment right where it is used. For any other situation, you need to ask permission before using anything else, and if given permission by myself you need to indicate in a comment that you asked for and received permission. Note that this applies as well to searching on the web (stackoverflow, geeksforgeeks, etc.) - you need permission to use anything from any of these cites.
  • Copying something and not giving a citation: not allowed, 0 tolerance.
• For quizzes and exams, each student needs to take the quiz/exam on a different computer (even if the quiz/exam is a take-home online one that can be taken over a period of time). Taking a quiz or exam on the same computer as another student in the course: not allowed, 0 tolerance.
• For a quiz/exam, asking any AI, person, forum, etc. anything related to the exam: not allowed, 0 tolerance. This includes asking anything related (e.g., "how do for loops work in Python", "how does a binary search tree work", "how do you proof by induction").

Late work

Assignments For most assignments, I will not accept late work. If I will take late work, I will announce this for an assignment.

Labs Labs are more frequent, and late work will never be accepted for these. The point of these is to keep you working steadily, so no late work accepted.

Quizzes For synchronous courses, quizzes will be taken through canvas during the last part of lecture time. If you miss this time slot for a reason approved by the instructor ahead of time, the instructor will either allow you to take the quiz later or will just not count the quiz for you. Note that quiz retakes will sometimes be a part of the next exam; this will be announced when the exam date comes closer. For asynchronous courses, you will have a timeframe in which to take the exam; if you miss this timeframe without approval you get a 0.

Exams There will be no makeup exams. If you miss an exam, the final exam replaces the grade of the exam you miss. If you miss the final exam, it will be a 0.

Overall Course Grade

Your overall course grade will result from the simple total of all points in the course. I normally weight the exams so the exams are worth about 50% of the total grade, with each exam worth more than previous ones. For 100 level courses there are normally 3 exams; for all others there are normally 2 (a midterm and a final).

Note that for the final exam, if you do better on that than the earlier exams then only the final exam counts.

Grading Programs and Problems

• Programs: sometimes will be given scores for correctness, style, and being safe/secure code. By default, 1/2 of the points are for correctness, 1/4 for style, 1/4 for being safe/secure. Sometimes only the correctness will be graded. For programming style, see Programming Style - Generic. For safe/secure code, see Programming safe and secure code - generic.
• Math/proofs/essays: sometimes will be given scores for correctness and style. By default, 2/3 of the points are for correctness and 1/3 for style. Points are subtracted for any statement that you include that is false - so you should avoid a brain dump of every thought that you have because I will take off for things that you say that are not correct. For style in writing math/proofs/essay responses, see CS Writing Style - Generic.
• Assignment grading: assignments will normally be graded only once, with no late work accepted. You should turn in whatever you have by the due date so that you get some points and feedback. If late work will be accepted for an assignment, that will be announced.

Course Outcomes

For each assignment or problem, I might list the specific course outcomes being measured by that assignment or problem. I can use this information in evaluating how the class is doing overall, and I can also use this to help in writing letters of reference later on.

Complaints or Questions

If you have any complaints or questions about anything in a course, you should always communicate with the instructor first. If you skip communicating with the instructor and go straight to complaining to someone else (your advisor, the department chairperson, the dean, the university president, etc.), they will generally tell you that you need to talk to the instructor first.

Course Policies Quiz

The following is a quiz over Jeff Kinne's course policies: sample quiz. The link is to a practice quiz that you can try out. Those enrolled in the course need to take the quiz within the course for it to count. For Jeff Kinne's courses, you are required to score a 100% on this quiz within the first week of classes in order to continue in the course. Note that you will be able to take the quiz multiple times. If you choose not to score 100% on this quiz you should drop the course.